

Al Najim Saudi International Co Ltd (Nasico) is a company engaged in diversified fields of activities, viz trading, contracting, providing electrical and mechanical engineering services, etc.
With its 25-year track record, the company has established its credentials as a reliable supplier of engineered products and services to a wide range of clientele in the oil, gas, petrochemical, power generation/transmission, water desalination, cement, steel and other core industries in Saudi Arabia.
With its head office situated in Al Khobar, the company has the following divisions:
• Technical Sales Division;
• Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Services Division (Workshop Division), comprising Valve Shop, Machine Shop, Switchgear Repair Shop, Electrical Motor Rewinding Shop and Structural Steel Fabrication Shop;
• Lift (Elevator) Division;
• Fibreglass Piping Division; and
• German Auto Service.
Always firmly committed to rendering service of the highest quality to its clientele, which include Saudi Aramco, Sabic, Saudi Electricity Company, petrochemical industries, SWCC, cement plants, steel plants, etc, the company enjoys the privilege of being the accredited vendors/contractors to these esteemed companies.
The Technical Sales Division, represents major overseas companies, like, Tyco Valves & Controls Group Companies (Flow Control Technologies, Fasani, Vanessa, Keystone, Anderson Greenwood Crosby, Yarway, Biffi, etc), SKF Reliability Systems, SKF Dymac/Vibrometer, Fixturlaser, Land Instruments, Areva T and D, Sediver, Converteam Motors (Alstom Moteurs), Maximator, Netherlocks Safety Systems, Thompson Valves, Groth Corporation, Dowding and Mills, etc, and supplies engineered products, viz Pipeline and Process Valves, Actuators, Pressure Vacuum Relief Valves, Solonoid Valves, Safety Interlocking Systems, High Pressure Systems, Pressure Vessels, Columns, Heat Exchangers, Large Motors, Vibration Monitoring and Analysis Equipment, Machinery Protection Systems, Laser Alignment Systems, Balancing Machines, on line temperature measurement systems, Protection Relays, etc.
This division also provides specialised services, including:
1) Condition Monitoring of Rotating Equipment, Laser Alignment Services, Root Cause Analysis and Asset Efficiency Optimisation, including Plant Assessment, Maintenance Strategy Improvements, Proactive Reliability Maintenance (PRM), Streamlined Reliability Centred Maintenance (SRCM) and Spare Parts Optimisation;
2) Rewinding of High Voltage Motors and Generators; and
3) Refurbishment of Protection Relays (Areva).
This division is also recognised for the back-up technical support/after sales service that it provides through the Nasico’s state-of-the-art Mechanical/Electrical Workshop.
Recently, this division, in association with SKF Reliability Systems has set up a Reliability Maintenance Institute (RMI), with the prime objective of offering comprehensive training courses, designed to help eliminate machinery problems and achieve maximum reliability and productivity.
The Workshop Division of NASICO takes pride in having a comprehensively well-equipped state-of-the-art facility, offering the following services:
• Valve Shop: Conforming to relevant API, ASME, ANSI and other International Standard, coupled with the accreditation of being the approved contractors for Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electricity Company, Sabic, etc, this shop undertakes overhaul/repairs/testing, both at its facility and on site, of all types of valves of varying sizes and pressure ranges, including gate, globe, plug, ball, check, butterfly, control and safety relief valves, pneumatic and electrical actuators.
Well-equipped Valve Repair Mobile Workshops enable it to undertake onsite (both offshore and onshore) testing and repair of valves and accessories all over the Kingdom and in neighbouring countries. In addition to its main facility in Al Khobar, they have recently established a new valve repair facility in Jubail to especially cater to the needs of continuously growing industries in Jubail area.
• Machine Shop: This shop, which is equipped with a wide range of equipment like centre lathes, cylindrical, internal and surface grinders, slotters, millers, vertical borer, horizontal borer, lap master and super finishing machinery, offers precision machining services and supplies precision-machined components to a wide range of clients in the Kingdom.
Under this group, field services are offered all over the Kingdom, involving major overhauling of machine tools (lathes, milling machines, etc), available in clients’ workshops.
This is a specialised area involving highly skilled technicians and over the years the group says it has established a very good track record.
• Structural Steel Fabrication Shop: The Structural Steel Fabrication Shop is an ISO 9001 2000 Certified Shop for its Quality Management Systems.
With its qualified and well-experienced engineers and fabricators, this shop offers engineering, fabrication and installation of steel structures and products for various steel construction projects for substations, refineries, power plants, petrochemical industries, cement plants, paper mills, iron and steel rolling mills and desalination plants, executing the orders with the highest customer satisfaction level through competitive prices, high quality, on-time delivery and exceptional services.
The range of production includes heavy, medium and light structures of carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminium like A-frames gantries, pipe racks, equipment/vessel platforms, hand rails, cage ladders, gratings, buckets, panel boards, hoppers, tanks, pull boxes and anchor bolts.
The Fabrication Shop is also approved by leading clients, like Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electricity Company, Sabic, Technip, JGC, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Parsons, etc, for supply of light and medium steel structures.
The Lift (Elevator) Division of NASICO continues to maintain its well- established position in the market, offering a wide range of products and services all over the Kingdom.
A selection of elevators are available in the portfolio of this division, ranging from small compact Personal Lifts, that can be installed in villas, to high quality elevators/escalators for commercial offices/shopping malls, and explosion-proof elevators for hazardous areas in refinery and petrochemical plants.
This division also provides very high quality maintenance services and has many long term contracts established with leading clients in the Kingdom.
In addition to existing offices of Al Khobar, Jubail, Riyadh and Jeddah, a new office has been set up in Taif to service existing clientele and cater to the growing tourism industry.
• Fibreglass Piping Division: The NASICO Spool Shop (Fibreglass Piping Division) enjoys the experience and expertise gained from the company’s association with WAVIN, Netherlands, a pioneer in this field. This division produces customised fibreglass spooling and pipe-fittings, fibreglass lining on a variety of surfaces to provide a corrosion/erosion barrier. This division also specialises in site works involving fiberglass field joints, installation of fiberglass pipes and fittings as well as carrying out major repairs on existing installations.
• German Auto Service Division (GAS): GAS provides comprehensive support and service to Mercedes Benz and BMW cars, by utilising latest sophisticated equipment and state-of-the-art technology. A major new activity undertaken by this division is setting up of a separate Shop to carry out Refurbishment of Saudi Aramco Aircraft Refuelling Trucks, mobile cranes and other specialised vehicles.
With the group’s well-entrenched position in the market and envisioning the business prospects from the current projects and the new projects on the agenda for the next decade, NASICO is optimistic of achieving substantial growth in its various businesses in the coming years.
On Saudisation, the company reaffirmed its commitment for the implementation of the Saudisation programme. Since all areas of operations involves highly technically skilled workforce to meet the exacting standards of the clients like Saudi Aramco, Sabic, SEC, SWCC, etc, the firm has launched an on-the-job training programme in various disciplines for the local youth hired from different technical training schools so as to offer them long-term employment in the group.